Op-Ed: Why is Mexico holding a presidential recall referendum in April?

Since before he took office in 2018, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, or AMLO, has been promising that his country's citizens would get to evaluate his leadership by voting in a recall referendum on whether he should finish out his term. [...] "The first strange fact about the vote is that the people who are organizing it are people who like the president," said journalist, lawyer, and political analyst Fernanda Caso [...] There's still the matter of the cost. The National Electoral Institute, known as the INE, has been budgeted $77 million to hold the recall-a total that's roughly 40 percent of what the agency estimated it would need. [...] Turnout could well be low. A February El Financiero poll found that 52 percent of Mexicans don't see the recall as necessary. AMLO said he'll recognize the recall results, even if 40 percent of the electorate, the minimum needed for the outcome to be binding, don't show.
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